SDLC Job Trends in Bolton

Systems or Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring SDLC skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 29 11
Rank change year-on-year +10 -18 +15
Permanent jobs citing SDLC 4 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 4.55% 0.85% 10.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 1.09% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £43,750 - £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £32,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.00%
75th Percentile £51,250 - £33,000
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +26.09% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bolton

SDLC falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64 92 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 72.73% 77.97% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 46 53 36
10th Percentile £30,625 £24,756 £28,875
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -2.86% +36.72%
75th Percentile £50,938 £55,000 £50,644
90th Percentile £72,500 £63,800 £64,250
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%

SDLC
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SDLC relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

SDLC job vacancy trend in Bolton

SDLC
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing SDLC.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing SDLC

SDLC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) NetSuite
1 1 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) BigCommerce
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (75.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) JPA
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Redux
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (50.00%) CSS3
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) Jest
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Sass
4 1 (25.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth
4 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
2 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) Responsive Web Design
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) API Design
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) API Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Solace
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce